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Official apology for Alan Turing
Blog Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made an apology to Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work at Bletchley Park had profound consequences in shortening World War II. The most important thing to me is that people hear about Alan...
[September 10, 2009, 22:40]
Turing apology campaign: "public announcement shortly"
Blog It may be bad form to flag a news story based on a single tweet, but this one warrants it: It's from @jgrahamc - John Graham-Cumming, instigator of the petition to get an official apology for Alan Turing - ten minutes ago.
[September 10, 2009, 20:07]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been shortlisted by a nationwide survey, conducted by the BBC, to find the greatest ever Briton. Alan Turing was both an unlikely hero of the Second World War and a vital player in the birth...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
The machine that wanted to be a mind
News Since the 1950s, when Alan Turing famously predicted that by the year 2000 machines would be able to pass as human in conversation, the field has attracted high hopes, brilliant minds and heartbreaking failure in equal measure.
[January 23, 2001, 13:45]
AI: The story so far
News Although their work was undermined by Kurt Goedel who in 1931 proved that mathematics could not be proven by rules of deduction, the concept was taken up by pioneer of computer logic Alan Turing. Alan Turing's other contribution to the field of...
[January 23, 2001, 13:22]
Recognising Bletchley Park's unsung heroines
News While newspapers and history books have devoted a lot of attention to high-profile codebreakers, including Alan Turing and Max Newman, who between them designed the two main codebreaking machines, Colossus (pictured) and Bombe, there has been...
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Hackers Rule OK
News Alan Turing and other cryptanalyts apply the scientist's theory of The Universal Turing Machine at the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park to crack the German military's legendary Enigma code.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Robot-busting ploy 'shuts out the blind'
News Often called a "Turing test" (after computer scientist Alan Turing, who famously described the requirements for a test to distinguish between a computer and a person), the visual verification test requires a person to read and type a series of...
[November 7, 2003, 14:15]
Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture
News The Turing test was developed by computer scientist Alan Turing to determine whether computers can "think". Of course, she doesn't yet pass the Turing test. Among other achievements, Kurzweil, who has worked on artificial intelligence and pattern...
[March 20, 2001, 11:00]
Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding
News The actor Stephen Fry said in the statement that three things had become "necessary" for the recognition of Bletchley Park and the work done by its staff: an apology to Alan Turing "for how the nation he helped preserve turned its back on him and...
[September 29, 2009, 12:48]
Talking PCs make progress
News The Turing test -- building a machine that can respond like a human via typed messages -- was posed by World War II era computing pioneer Alan Turing. Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, many researchers and executives...
[July 9, 2003, 11:17]
Twenty years of viruses and still no cure
News Between 1948 and 1956, he extended much of the work to one of his peers, famed computer scientist Alan Turing. Von Neumann expanded Turing's concept to the creation of a universal constructor, a system that could replicate itself.
[November 27, 2003, 14:25]
The real revolution stands on:
Talkback --Alan Turing, who conceived all of it; equivalent to invention of writing the 8088/8086.equivalent to invention of printing mobile telephony, equivalent to invention of the wheel.
[October 8, 2009, 13:58]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News Efforts to create tests aimed at distinguishing humans from machines go back decades, with the most famous formulation of the problem posed in 1950 by the English mathematician and World War II "Enigma" code breaker Alan Turing.
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Turing Award goes to error-checking researchers
News First awarded in 1966, the AM Turing Award was named after Alan M Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing and who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of the German Enigma...
[February 5, 2008, 17:23]
Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again
News The Loebner Prize is based on a prediction made in 1950 by Alan Turing, the famous British mathematician and code breaker. According to Turing, in the year 2000, computer programming would have advanced to a stage where, after five minutes of...
[October 22, 2003, 14:35]
Early Internet switch becomes museum piece
News The switch, a Cisco Catalyst 1200, will be displayed at the Museum in South Kensington, close to valued technological relics such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and some of Alan Turing's computational work.
[November 30, 2004, 9:10]
Why Turing matters
Blog The story, of course, is that Alan Turing has received an official posthumous apology from Gordon Brown. The crime of what happened to Turing cannot be righted by this or any other act, but the symbolism goes a long way to turning a single — if...
[September 10, 2009, 23:36]
Enigma code machine swiped from Bletchley Park museum
News British mathematician Alan Turing was the principle code breaker at Bletchley who developed his own machines dubbed "Bombes" capable of deciphering the Enigma code. One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
News Cryptologists at Bletchley Park in the UK managed to break Enigma through their development of early computers, led by Alan Turing, and also by using intelligence to cut down the number of possible set-ups.
[February 27, 2006, 16:30]
